PBS's NOW on Trend of Restrictive Voting Laws-tonight

[mod mom]

Just received this from PFAW:


Tonight, PBS’s NOW will tackle the trend of restrictive voting laws that have been emerging across the country in recent years. Featured on the show – and setting the record straight – will be two People For the American Way Foundation leaders:

• Georgia Representative Alisha Thomas Morgan, of PFAW Foundation’s Young Elected Officials Network, is an ardent defender of democracy and leading advocate against an overly restrictive voter identification law passed in Georgia that was struck down in court as unconstitutional (now on appeal in the 11th Circuit Appeals Court).
• David Becker, a Senior Attorney for PFAW Foundation working on civil rights and voting rights issues, brings his informed perspective to the discussion, having worked for several years in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
If you want to know why People For’s extensive work on our nation’s voting problems is one of the most important acts of civic engagement currently underway, you won’t want to miss this program.

Check your local listings for the exact time and station at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html.

[rumpel]

1. aand they have this up on their site:

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/235/voting-rules.html

also posted on ERD

[emlev]

2. Would someone give a report here on key information?

[McCamy Taylor]

3. Good show. Concise, informative. Covered the DOJ's role in the scam.

[CountDmoney]

4. I was not aware of these new laws,

it really freaked me out. Trying to undo 40 years of progress in civil rights. We are really fucked.